primary message in states that won t matter in the general election. so all that war chest of trump is he massing. all the digital spending that he s doing, a lot of facebook advertising, all that is driving towards defining the terms of the general election debate. we did this in 2012. so we set the tone of the general election during this period of time when we were better financed and could focus on the general election message. democrats are going to have to pivot very hard. i would like them to be making a case against trump not just against one another. because we have to keep our eye on november. all right. we ll leave tlit. come back in just a bit. thank you very much for taking the time this morning. happy new year. great to see you. kim jong-un promised donald trump a christmas gift. it has not arrived yet. some analysts and experts are on edge. john bolton continues to hit president trump hard for how he handled this. he handled this (janine) i used to be a little cranky.
ben with me in new trump stock market rally is very good but still lags obama and clinton. put this into context with us. the market side and we ll get to the economics in just a sec. sit s been a great year for stocks. we re almost up 30% on the s and p 500. it s shaping up to be potentially the best year since 1997. so people feel that, they see that when they open their retirement statements or take a glance at the stock market and president trump loves that. but when he says this is unprecedented or historic or the best ever, he tweeted on friday, that he is beating other presidents, that s simply not true. the returns under both president clinton and president obama three years into their presidency were a bit higher than where president trump is now. but he has a lot of good talking
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but at least now it s moving. nancy pelosi does, waiting to so i don t want to root against see what mitch mcconnell does the economy. before it can react. but a year from now, if donald as our rank and file trump has been re-elected it s democrats, by the way. going to be first and foremost but to that point, there has because of the economy. now, what s amazing is the guy been quiet from those in democrat being leadership in the couldn t make it harder for himself. you know, the first the house and republican leadership friday after every month you get in the senate money. the unemployment numbers, the we re in this abyss right guy should be doing nothing but now. there is no precedent for it, no talking about that but instead guardrails for this process that he starts ranting about nancy we re in right now. the constitution of course spells out very little about the pelosi s teeth and whatever impeachment process, which else. so we ll see about the politics allows both pelos
the run to run, who the one to run, he would not be the front-runner. he has now gone from the narrative of a few months ago of he may be ditching and leaving the president high and dry to moving into the territory where he has a luke warm kind of support of the president. should he leave it would probably firm up and secure him a republican nomination. he s actually handling this more in tnikki haley type of way. so as a candidate he s handling it extremely well. he s also giving the president plenty of time to set up, should he leave, who will replace him. he as a confirmed acting deputy secretary so that could be a potential solution. while the others may fight over it, that s fine. but mike pompeo has done a very